Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:14:55 -0600 (CST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Se=E1n_C=2E_Farley?= <sean-freebsd@farley.org> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unfetchable distfiles reminder Message-ID: <20060207091236.H69148@thor.farley.org> In-Reply-To: <20060207090207.U68510@thor.farley.org> References: <200602071004.k17A4Vtd076872@freefall.freebsd.org> <20060207090207.U68510@thor.farley.org>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-881143833-1139325295=:69148 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Se=E1n C. Farley wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Bill Fenner wrote: > >> In addition, the list of all ports with any unfetchable distfile is >>=20 >> http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/portsurvey/bad.html > > For open-motif, it says: > ftp://ftp.ics.com/pub/Products/Motif/om2.2.3/src/openMotif-2.2.3.tar.gz: > looking for file 550 openMotif-2.2.3.tar.gz: No such file or directory. > (Last OK result NEVER [checked 17 times since Sun Sep 11 16:02:14 2005 > UTC, last time was Mon Feb 6 13:18:45 2006 UTC]) > > It works from the port to fetch it. fetch uses PASV to download it. > With a tool I wrote and curl, which both use EPSV by default, it fails. > I bet the port survey tool is using EPSV. Maybe, ICS has a firewall > that does not understand EPSV so does not open the port for the incoming > connection. I should read more carefully. What I said above is true, but ICS's FTP server does not list the distfile although it exists. That may be the actual problem. I would still watch out for those bad EPSV-ignorant firewalls. :) Se=E1n --=20 sean-freebsd@farley.org --0-881143833-1139325295=:69148--
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